Adrian Woods
Foundation Chair in Management Studies
Contact Details
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Summary
Professor Woods is Foundation Chair in Management and Deputy Head of the Business School. Previously he was Dean of the Graduate School for three years and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences for four years before that. He has been a consultant in both the private sector and the public sector, as well as being a consultant for the European Union on economic development.
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Small business
Entrepreneurship
Leader
Strategy
Research Interests
- Voluntary organisation development
- Social Enterprise development,
- Small business development,
- Entrepreneurship,
- Middle management training and development
- Strategy
Research Centres
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2010) Balta, ME., Woods, A. and Dickson, K., The influence of boards of directors' characteristics on strategic decision-making: Evidence from Greek companies, Journal of Applied Business Research 26 (3) : 57- 68
(2009) Balta, ME., Woods, A. and Dickson, K., Decision-making amongst Greek executives: Their attributes and environment, Journal of Economic Asymmetries 6 (1) : 29- 48
(2009) Woods, A. and Dennis, C., What do UK small and medium enterprises think about employing graduates?, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 16 (4) : 642- 659
(2008) Cornelius, N., Todres, M., Janjuha-Jivraj, S., Woods, A. and Wallace, J., Corporate social responsibility and the social enterprise, Journal of Business Ethics 81 (2) : 355- 370
(2007) Ituma, A., Simpson, R., Bo, X., Woods, A. and Sturges, J., Forms of capital and career benefits of the MBA in China and the UK, International Journal of Management Education 6 (2) : 63- 79 Download publication
(2007) Llewellyn, N., Lewis, P. and Woods, A., Public management and the expansion of an entrepreneurial ethos?, PUBLIC MANAG REV 9 (2) : 253- 267
(2006) Todres, M., Cornelius, N., Janjuha-Jivraj, S. and Woods, A., Developing emerging social enterprise through capacity building, Nelarine Social Enterprise Journal 2 (1) : 61- 72
(2005) Simpson, R., Sturges, J., Altman, Y. and Woods, A., Gender, age and the MBA: An analysis of extrinsic and intrinsic career benefits, Journal of Management Education 29 (2) : 218- 247 Download publication
(2004) Simpson, R., Sturges, J., Woods, A. and Altman, Y., Career progress and career barriers: Women MBA graduates in Canada and the UK, Career Development International 9 (5) : 459- 477 Download publication
(2003) Joyce, P. and Woods, A., Managing for growth: decision making, planning, and making changes, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 10 (2) : 144- 151
(2003) Woods, A. and Joyce, P., Owner-managers and the practice of strategic management, International Small Business Journal 21 (2) : 181- 195
(2003) Simpson, R., Holley, D. and Woods, A., The significance of seniority for women managers’ interpretations of organizational restructuring, Journal of Managerial Psychology 18 (7) : 680- 690 Download publication
(2002) Davies, A., Joyce, P., Beaver, G. and Woods, A., Leadership boards of directors, Strategic Change 11 (4) : 225- 233
(2002) Janjuha-Jivraj, S. and Woods, A., Successional issues within Asian family firms, International Small Business Journal 20 (1) : 77- 94
(2002) Woods, A. and Joyce, P., The arrival of postmodernist strategic theory: Its academic manifestation and the development of a new modernist perspective, Strategic Change 11 (2) : 71- 80
(2002) Janjuha-Jivraj, S. and Woods, A., The art of 'good conversations': A strategy to negotiate succession within South Asian family firms, Strategic Change 11 (8) : 425- 434
(1995) Ormerod, MB., McKenzie, J. and Woods, A., Final report on research relating to the concept of five separate dimensions of personality-or six including intelligence, Personality and Individual Differences 18 (4) : 451- 461
Conference Papers
(2010) Balta, M., Cornelius, N., Darlington,, C., Smith, S. and Woods, A., The challenges and the adoption of positioning strategy in social enterprises: A case study, Public Administration in the Balkans - From Weberian Bureaucracy to New Public Management Workshop
(2008) Balta, ME., Woods, A. and Dickson, K., External environment and board characteristics on strategic decision making process, 9th Biennial International Conference: The Global Economics of a Changing Environment
(2007) Zafeiropoulou, F. and Woods, A., The effect of social structure on the exchange of inter-organizational relationships: a network embeddedness approach, ISOF (21st Annual International Society of Franchising Conference), Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Society of Franchising Conference
(2006) Dickson, K., Janjuha-Jivraj, S., Primrose, P. and Woods, A., Clustering and networking among small independent hotels: Developments over ten years, International Small Business & Enterprise Conference, Proceedings of the Internationl Small Business and Enterprise Conference 1- 15 Download publication
